curl - Assign output to variable in Bash

In shell, you don't put a $ in front of a variable you're assigning. You only use $IP when you're referring to the variable.

#!/bin/bash  IP=$(curl automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp)  echo "$IP"  sed "s/IP/$IP/" nsupdate.txt | nsupdate 

Same with something more complex...getting the ec2 instance region from within the instance.

INSTANCE_REGION=$(curl -s 'http://169.254.169.254/latest/dynamic/instance-identity/document' | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)['region']")  echo $INSTANCE_REGION 

In case you have different conditions to evaluate for keys and values, @Marcin's answer is the way to go.

If you have the same condition for keys and values, you're better off with building (key, value)-tuples in a generator-expression feeding into dict():

dict((modify_k(k), modify_v(v)) if condition else (k, v) for k, v in dct.items()) 

It's easier to read and the condition is only evaluated once per key, value.

Example with borrowing @Cleb's dictionary of sets:

d = {'key1': {'a', 'b', 'c'}, 'key2': {'foo', 'bar'}, 'key3': {'so', 'sad'}} 

Assume you want to suffix only keys with a in its value and you want the value replaced with the length of the set in such a case. Otherwise, the key-value pair should stay unchanged.

dict((f"{k}_a", len(v)) if "a" in v else (k, v) for k, v in d.items()) # {'key1_a': 3, 'key2': {'bar', 'foo'}, 'key3': {'sad', 'so'}} 

It also might be worth mentioning that If only statements put the if at the end:

{_ for _ in iterable if True} 

Another example in using if/else in dictionary comprehension

I am working on data-entry desktop application for my own office work, and it is common for such data-entry application to get all entries from input widget and dump it into a dictionary for further processing like validation, or editing which we must return selected data from file back to entry widgets, etc.

The first round using traditional coding (8 lines):

entries = {'name': 'Material Name', 'maxt': 'Max Working Temperature', 'ther': {100: 1.1, 200: 1.2}}  a_dic, b_dic = {}, {}  for field, value in entries.items():     if field == 'ther':         for k,v in value.items():             b_dic[k] = v         a_dic[field] = b_dic     else:         a_dic[field] = value      print(a_dic) “ {'name': 'Material Name', 'maxt': 'Max Working Temperature', 'ther': {100: 1.1, 200: 1.2}}” 

Second round I tried to use dictionary comprehension but the loop still there (6 lines):

entries = {'name': 'Material Name', 'maxt': 'Max Working Temperature', 'ther': {100: 1.1, 200: 1.2}}  for field, value in entries.items():     if field == 'ther':         b_dic = {k:v for k,v in value.items()}         a_dic[field] = b_dic     else:         a_dic[field] = value      print(a_dic) “ {'name': 'Material Name', 'maxt': 'Max Working Temperature', 'ther': {100: 1.1, 200: 1.2}}” 

Finally, with a one-line dictionary comprehension statement (1 line):

entries = {'name': 'Material Name', 'maxt': 'Max Working Temperature', 'ther': {100: 1.1, 200: 1.2}}  a_dic = {field:{k:v for k,v in value.items()} if field == 'ther'          else value for field, value in entries.items()}      print(a_dic) “ {'name': 'Material Name', 'maxt': 'Max Working Temperature', 'ther': {100: 1.1, 200: 1.2}}” 

I use python 3.8.3